i asked some of my berkeley/oakland biker pals about that tom holub guy and his reputation precedes him (read:they all know him to have an unparalleled case of dunning-kruger). it's so bad he once tried to whitesplain the black american experience to a black city of oakland employee on twitter

My favorite line was when he scoffed at me for being an urbanist because I lived in Charlotte, as if I somehow don't recognize Charlotte's problems!

honestly knowing that he tried to whitesplain to a black guy what it's like being black in america makes that so much funnier

Urbanists are created by bad urban planning

I live in NJ which is both a success and failure mode of urbanism (Gutenberg is the densest part of the U.S. but no transit besides busses! Union city denset real municipality but no rail)

North NJ is a hellscape for cars with barely any public transit, truly the LA of the east At least NJT is pretty convenient as long as you’re close to a station and are only interested in going to NYC

Let me build Path 2 and I will finish the fight.

I’d kill for expanded PATH and more lines like it (especially if they transfer between each other), I used the hell out of it in college Had to go to JC this weekend and could not figure out any convenient way to get in via public transit, made the miserable decision to drive in

See I would do PATH via Bergline/JFK to new city and probably convert the spring valley line to metro and then build a connection to Tunnels, add some passing sidings for spring valley to enable peak 10 minuet service